Internet Explorer Mobile includes many of the
time-saving features found on the desktop. Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows
Phone 7 uses the desktop Windows Internet Explorer 7 rendering engine with some
enhancements made for mobile layout, along with some scripting capabilities from
Internet Explorer 8. Internet Explorer 9 Mobile is web browser in action on
Windows Phone 7. The mobile version of the browser is expected to be made
available for Windows Phone devices.
By default, Internet Explorer Mobile identifies itself to websites as a mobile
browser so that they can optimize their content for the phone. Even if a website
doesn't provide mobile–optimized content, web pages still load quickly and
display clearly. Users can rotate the phone to switch between portrait and
landscape views. And to make entering text on web pages easy, the view
automatically zooms in on the entry field.
You can add any website to your favorites list
in Windows Phone 7 Web Browser.
- On Start, tap Internet Explorer, then open
the website you'd like to save.
- Tap Add .
- If you don't need the name and web address
(URL) of the site tnab make any changes, tap OK.
- Otherwise, tap inside a text box to edit
an entry. When you've finished, tap OK.
Just simply clicking on a video from the mobile
YouTube website will launch the video in a standalone app and will also add the
YouTube video to the Music + Video Hub. The first time a user taps on a YouTube
video, they're prompted to download the free Video Player for YouTube app. After
watching the video, the user can return to the original website by pressing the
phone's back button.
The iPhone has Exchange support but the Android does not offer Active Sync. The
windows phone 7 will offer multiple exchange account sync which will also be
good for business users. Windows Phone 7 supports Hotmail, Outlook, Yahoo! Mail,
Gmail natively and supports many other services via the POP and IMAP protocols.
For the native account types, contacts and calendars may be synced as well.
Users can also search through their e-mail by searching in the subject, body,
senders, and receivers. Emails are shown in threading view and multiple e-mail
inboxes can be combined or kept separate.